I think we will eventually find out what childhood experiences she went through that ended up molding her this way. I don't necessarily think that she had a bad experience per se, but I felt that HS' analogy of mann ke gaanth referred to social conditioning she had when growing up. It is deep rooted and held firmly in place by nails that need to come out. It will hurt as they fall off but it will liberate her eventually. As an example, the other day she was telling HS that people were right to criticize them for getting married at this age when they were parents, because she would have felt the same if her own parents had done it.
HS has always told Babita not to transfer her fear to Minine because he didn't want her to be restricted by social conditioning either. Babita on some level knows that she needs to change but she has some mental blocks that she will learn to deal with and then be able to break free of those psychological bonds/
babita has been having feelings or hanuman since a long time. i remember where she indirectly said no to hanuman citing minis happiness but somewhere it was her mental block of what society will say or her thinking that marriage should happen only once. On top of it people have been taunting her for having desires even after being a mother to a 17year old child.
she was happy initially sharing her marriage news with only her closed ones. but when the whole society is involved she has been uncomfortable
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